On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Dale Snell wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, does autowrap work in other contexts, or is > > it just the shell prompt? What happens if you expand the > > terminal's window out to, say, 132 columns? > > I get funky behavior in alpine when composing and sending a > reply; alpine resides in a urxvt wrapper. I've tried expanding > the window width and it makes no difference. Let me try a huge > one (on the 20" wide screen ... as soon as the text gets close > to the right margin of the window it wraps, but truncates the > leftmost characters. I've no way of telling how many > characters, but a couple in any case. I had the window set to > 180x25 and could invoke the behavior by cd'ing from one buried > subdirectory to another when specifying the entire path from my > home directlry. Okay, this is getting weird. I just tried urxvt myself -- plain vanilla, no .Xresources file, no command line switches. It wraps correctly, even my ridiculously long directory name prompt. > > Is there a reason to be using urxvt in particular? > > Well, regular rxvt does not handle utf-8; I see strange > characters instead. I've read quite a few comparisons saying > that if you don't need the DEC and other terminal support of > xterm you're better off with a less resource intensive vt such > as rxvt. I've been using ROXTerm recently, and it seems to work fairly well. I've even fed it Japanese characters (kanji and kana) and it was happy with it. To make sure of this, I just pulled up the Square-Enix web site in Japan (<http://www.square-enix.com/>) using elinks in both ROXTerm and urxvt and both displayed the characters correctly. I'm using ROXTerm v. 1.18.5, rxvt-unicode v. 9.12, and elinks v. 0.12-0.23.pre5.fc14. (This on a 64 bit Fedora 14 box.) So. Urxvt works here, at least as far as I've taken it. It looks to me as if you have some sort of mis-configuration somewhere. Best thing to do is back out all the configuration changes (rename .Xresources to .xresources.old, or something), and see if urxvt works that way. If it does, then you can put things back until it breaks again. If it's still broken, even with no command line or .Xresources options, then I have NO idea what's worng. Sorry I can't be more help. --Dale -- "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'Wouldn't it be much worse if if life were fair? And all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
